"Mom, what are you talking about?" I grumbled, "I just praised you for being reasonable, and you've been beating me in the dark again. I have an ordinary colleague relationship with her. Besides, Meng Yingyun has a boyfriend. Why don't you make such a mess of Mandarin ducks?

"Just talk to your mom," my mom said. "I just asked Xiao Meng, who told me she had no boyfriend at all."

"People are embarrassed to say that." I said.

"I know." My mother said, "Girls, thin-skinned, the first time I meet my future mother-in-law, I'm sorry to say you two are looking for someone."

I almost fainted.

"You've rounded me around....